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Latest features - Amazon Lex

This topic provides information about the latest features that Amazon Lex V2 offers:

Regional support for AWS GovCloud (US-West)

Amazon Lex V2 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West).

Generative AI features for Amazon Lex V2

Amazon Lex V2 now allows you to take advantage of Amazon Bedrock's generative AI capabilities for your bot.

AMAZON.Confirmation built-in slot for Yes/No/Maybe/Don't know disambiguation.

Amazon Lex V2 now offers AMAZON.Confimation built-in slot to improve the accuracy of slot confirmation and Yes/No/Maybe/Don't know responses.

Measuring business performance with Analytics

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the ability to view the performance of intents and slots on the Analytics dashboard.

Evaluating bot performance with Test workbench

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the ability to create and run test sets to measure bot performance and improve bot metrics.

Vertical specific bot templates

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users pre-built bot templates with ready-to-use conversation flows along with both training data and dialog prompts, for both voice and chat modalities.

Network of bots

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the ability to combine multiple bots into a single network and the ability to route requests to the appropriate bot based on user input.

Visual conversation builder

Amazon Lex V2 now offers a drag and drop conversation builder to easily design and visualize conversation paths by using intents within a rich visual environment.

Composite slot type

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the ability to combine multiple slots into a composite slot using logical expressions.

Conditional branching

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the ability to write conditions to better control the path that customers take through a conversation with your bot.

Automated chatbot designer

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the option of automatically designing a chatbot from conversation transcripts. Read the for usage examples.

Runtime hints

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the option of configuring runtime hints to improve recognition of phrases to improve elicitation of slot values.

Custom vocabulary

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the option of creating a custom vocabulary, a list of phrases that can include proper nouns or domain-specific words, for Amazon Lex V2 to recognize in the audio input.

Grammar slot type

Amazon Lex V2 now offers users the ability to author grammars in XML format following the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) to collect information in a conversation.

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